History repeats itself every weekend, but it gets worse by force.
Madrid's Sierra de Guadarrama
is completely collapsed due
to an increasing influx of public.
More than 150 people have had to wait for hours for the bus back to Madrid
with temperatures of 10 degrees below zero.
Many people from Madrid who decided to spend Saturday in the mountains and
arrived by public transport first thing in the morning
, were unaware that the return bus did not arrive until 4 in the afternoon.
From La Venta Marcelino, located in the port of Cotos, they have had to treat
several cases of hypothermia
in people who went up to the mountains, but they did not have shelter or transportation to return to the city.
As happens every weekend,
the Navacerrada and Cotos car parks
were full early in the morning and the M-601 and M-604 had to be cut due to the high influx of vehicles.
It so happens that today has been very cold and
with very low temperatures
, so many visitors have found themselves out in the open and without a place to shelter.
In the port of Cotos, there is only Venta Marcelino and the Peñalara visitor center can only be accessed by appointment.
In this way, the wait of more than 150 people for
the return bus to
arrive
was somewhat agonizing.
"At this time, Cotos is blocked.
More and more unfamiliar people come up from the mountain
, who do not know where they are coming. If you arrive dressed as if you were going to take a walk through Puerta del Sol and the temperatures drop to 10 degrees below zero , you stay frozen ", explains Rafael Sánchez, owner of Venta Marcelino.
Sánchez has long denounced
the lack of infrastructure
and public transport to attend the large influx of people to the Sierra during the weekends, especially at Christmas time.
"It is a real chaos. Crazy. The mountaineer is informed of the meteorological conditions. But we are at Christmas and it is time to go up the mountain with the children. And then they find themselves with
hours and hours of waiting
or with no parking", adds the owner of this sale, with 100 years of history behind him.
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